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why does the sheer scale of the ocean disturb you so profoundly, Jacob?

I think because upsizing something kind of everyday to an astronomic scale really drives home the size of things in a way that just thinking about "millions of miles" does not. there is crazy, genuinely huge stuff in the universe - stars bigger than our solar system, walls of galaxies - but thinking about it doesn't weird me out because my brain has long since shifted gears.

imagine flying straight towards jupiter

Jupiter going from a tiny cream-coloured dot, to the size of a coin

to eventually filling your entire vision

and then you start to descend into the planet, swallowing you whole

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i read a story in the scary stories book about a bride who went dancing at her wedding and died because the wedding dress had been taken from a corpse and was laced with poisonous preservatives which she absorbed through her skin

why does the sheer scale of the ocean disturb you so profoundly, Jacob?

not our ocean, he was talking about an ocean where saturn could float around in

i know, "the ocean" is referring to the ocean that he described. it seems to awaken in him a primordial terror.

that it doesn't in you is just because you're not fathoming just how big such an ocean would be.

i am fathoming it.

the thought does not awaken any primordial terror. the simple fact of a thing being enormous is not terrifying to me. it would awe me, and being stuck in a boat in the middle of such an ocean would make me extremely unhappy, but the thought of it existing does not freak me out.

This series is listed as being the most challenged series of books from 1990–1999[2] and seventh most challenged from 2000-2009 [3] by the American Library Association for its violence. Also there remains the problem of it being classified as a children's book, due to the surreal and nightmarish illustrations contained within.

Awesome.

Some of the stories were pretty great too, if I remember right. There was one about a scarecrow that scared the shit out of young me. Three volumes, if I remember right. They got pulled from our elementary school library because kids were seeing shit like this:

And getting traumatized.

My school had all three volumes but they were kept behind the desk to prevent the kids younger than 6th grade from getting them. When I was in 3rd grade, after schiool the other teacher's kids and I would sneak behind the desk and grab it and go into the dark media room and read it.

why does the sheer scale of the ocean disturb you so profoundly, Jacob?

not our ocean, he was talking about an ocean where saturn could float around in

i know, "the ocean" is referring to the ocean that he described. it seems to awaken in him a primordial terror.

that it doesn't in you is just because you're not fathoming just how big such an ocean would be.

i am fathoming it.

the thought does not awaken any primordial terror. the simple fact of a thing being enormous is not terrifying to me. it would awe me, and being stuck in a boat in the middle of such an ocean would make me extremely unhappy, but the thought of it existing does not freak me out.

And then you realize it's not an ocean, but is instead a gigantic gelatinous cube.

i read a story in the scary stories book about a bride who went dancing at her wedding and died because the wedding dress had been taken from a corpse and was laced with poisonous preservatives which she absorbed through her skin

i was... nine, i think

I forget the story but the picture of the chick with no eyes terrified me for ages.

jesus looking up some of these they'd be scary in a white wolf book much less a kids book

i read a story in the scary stories book about a bride who went dancing at her wedding and died because the wedding dress had been taken from a corpse and was laced with poisonous preservatives which she absorbed through her skin

i was... nine, i think

I forget the story but the picture of the chick with no eyes terrified me for ages.

jesus looking up some of these they'd be scary in a white wolf book much less a kids book

Those books were the fucking greatest. I owned them, and loved them. They're also some of the most frequently banned books. Because most parents are giant wusses.

why does the sheer scale of the ocean disturb you so profoundly, Jacob?

I think because upsizing something kind of everyday to an astronomic scale really drives home the size of things in a way that just thinking about "millions of miles" does not. there is crazy, genuinely huge stuff in the universe - stars bigger than our solar system, walls of galaxies - but thinking about it doesn't weird me out because my brain has long since shifted gears.

The first time I sailed solo past the sight of land, I was in awe of how empty things were. How very alone I was at that moment. That was my first thought. My second thought is that if I decided to go without pants then no one would see or care. My third thought was that was a good way to get sunburned.

FATE and Hollowpoint are the two systems I'm hot on now, but damned if I don't want to try this out too.

Isn't that the same system as Smallville?

Kinda sorta -- there's funny dice pools but at a glance it seems a bit different under the hood.

Smallville is more I Love Clark Kent D6 + I hate Kryptonite D8. This is like a pool of dice, some o which can be turned into d4s in exchange for plot points, plus spending pp's on bonus dice when needed vs. The big pile of doom dicethe DM is using to represent the threat of the entire situation around you.

A lot of what really intrigues me is the whole approach to the game: the basic core rules manual is now out, with a dozen heroes and a mini-adventure based on "the breakout" (new avengers tpb vol 1, in other words).

What's interesting is that they're going to release complete books based on big events -- I believe Civil War and Annihilation are thbfirst two. So the book will have an entire multi-part campaign with big plot points and decisions and such all sketched outfit you and slathered with licensed art. It will have write-ups of the characters from the comics statted as would be relevant to that story. this really interests me: different books will have very different interpretations of, say, spider-man with different Milestones pertaining to the specific story (general goals for the character to hit and be rewarded).

There will be two versions of each book -- just the adventure and characters like any predone pro adventure, and then an edition with all of the rules and the adventure.

Apparently the idea is not just to sell a supers sandbox but to sell you a marvel event and system and characters all in one package.

That makes sense since apparently the license requires 16 books. I might have to get my hands on the core book.

My dad used to go into paranoia mode once in a while about criminals. Like, he'd hear or see something in the backyard and he'd tell me and my mom to go hide in a room while he'd go into the back with his gun because there might be somebody sneaking about!

99% of the time, it was nothing, 1% of the time it was a stray dog. Sometimes he'd shoot the dog if he thought the dog was a threat to our animals.

I think when I was a kid, my brain developed this idea that there could be a creepy scary thing in the backyard at any time! and it didn't matter much whether that scary thing was a criminal or an alien.

"Don't you ever laugh as the hearse goes by,
For you may be the next one to die.
They wrap you up in a big white sheet
From your head down to your feet.
They put you in a big black box
And cover you up with dirt and rocks.
All goes well for about a week,
Then your coffin begins to leak.
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle in your snout,
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.
A big green worm with rolling eyes
Crawls in your stomach and out our eyes.
Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.
You'll spread it on a slice of bread,
And this is what you eat when you are dead."

The first time I sailed solo past the sight of land, I was in awe of how empty things were. How very alone I was at that moment. That was my first thought. My second thought is that if I decided to go without pants then no one would see or care. My third thought was that was a good way to get sunburned.